%VOSWARNING% %META:TOPICPARENT{name="VOSNews"}% %VOSNAV% ---+Virtuoso Open Source Edition News (2009) %TOC% ---++ Later Years * [[VOSNews][2012 to present]] * [[VOSNews2011][2011]] * [[VOSNews2010][2010]] ---++ 2009 ---+++ 2009-10-20: Announcing Virtuoso Open-Source Edition v6.0.0 OpenLink Software is pleased to announce the official release of Virtuoso Open-Source Edition, Version 6.0.0: ***IMPORTANT NOTE*** The database format changed substantially between VOS 5.x and VOS 6.x. To upgrade your database, you must dump all your data from your VOS 5.0 database and re-load it into VOS 6.0. New product features include: * [[VirtuosoFacetsWebService][Faceted Data Exploration Engine]] & Web Services (REST or SOAP) for high-performance disambiguated entity search & find, across entity type and property dimensions * ANY ORDER Queries * Anytime Queries (basic and complex business intelligence style analytics queries) * Client-level resource accounting * Expressions in "IN" predicate * Inverse Functional Property Value enhanced Identity * Key compression * Transitive subqueries in SQL, SPARQL, and SPASQL (ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET, OLEDB, XMLA) * Enhanced [[VirtSponger][Sponger Middleware Layer]] * DBMS hosted Public Key Infrastructure for WebID Protocol based Federated Identity. ---+++ 2009-10-19: Announcing Virtuoso Open-Source Edition v5.0.12 OpenLink Software is pleased to announce a new release of Virtuoso, Open-Source Edition, version 5.0.12 This version includes: ---++++ Database engine * Added Public Key Infrastructure UI in conductor * Added failover/roundrobin support for all client layers * Added support for vectors in IN predicate * Added various small engine optimizations and enhancements * Refactored JDBC driver * Imported PCRE version 7.9 from upstream project * Fixed XA support * Fixed performance of sprintf_more when using large buffers * Fixed memory leaks * Fixed HTTP various issues with HEAD and POST * Fixed serialization on HTTP connection cache * Fixed allow client to run during online backup * Fixed small bugs and compiler warnings ---++++ SPARQL and RDF * Added SPARQL graph-level security * Added new RDFa parser * Added support for Concise Bound Description * Added optimization for bif:COUNT * Added optimization for OPTIONAL * Added support for SCORE_LIMIT in bif:contains * Added support for text/n3 mime type * Added support for NVARCHAR, BIGINT in SPARQL and RDFViews * Added support for exclude-result-prefixes * Added support to crawl with multiple threads * Added support for NQUAD, JSON and N-Triples * Added support for DSA certificates * Added MS Docs, Open Office, Google app cartridges * Added CNET, YELP, TESCO, ZILLOW cartridges * Added GoodRelations, GeoNames, BestBuy cartridges * Added Alchemy, Yahoo Boss, Picasa, haudio cartridges * Added cache for common ontologies * Improved support for rdf:XMLLiteral exp in RDF loaders * Fixed handling of special characters in IRI * Fixed RDF view generation * Fixed and enhanced description.vsp * Fixed and enhanced iSPARQL * Fixed charset handling for cartridges ---++++ ODS Applications * Added checks for dynamic local * Added expiration so sponger can track changes * Added support for conversations * Added 'GROUP BY' handling for listed messages * Added 'Related' section in posts * Added new API and Ubiquity commands * Added hCard microformat * Added Ontology based editing * Added OpenSearch support * Added support for Smart Folders * Fixed OpenID, WebID Protocol * Fixed wiki attachments "upstreaming" * Fixed RDF gems * Fixed UI profile * Fixed mail filters * Fixed atom-pub protocol * Fixed rewrite rules * Fixed tag URIs * Fixed small bugs ---+++ 2009-04-22: Announcing Virtuoso Open-Source Edition v6.0 Technology Preview 1 ***IMPORTANT NOTE*** The database format has substantially changed between VOS 5.x and VOS 6.x. To upgrade your database, you must dump all your data from your VOS 5.0 database and re-load it into VOS 6.0. Currently under very active development, this introduces a new branch for Virtuoso with: * ANY ORDER Queries * Anytime Queries * Client-level resource accounting * Expressions in "IN" predicate * Facet Browsing Engine * Inverse Functional Property Value enhanced Identity * Key compression * Transitive subqueries in both SQL and SPARQL ---+++ 2009-04-22: Announcing Virtuoso Open-Source Edition v5.0.11 This version includes: ---++++ Database engine * Added x.509 Certificate Generation & Management functions * Improvements to session-handling (strses) to avoid temp-files and improve threading support * Added initial support for gzipped stream session * Added support for HTTP, socks4 and socks5 proxying with authentication options * Added support for URIQA methods in http_client() * Added support for gunzip in http_client * Various fixes for FT optimization, fractions in datetime, checkpoint-rollback and the compile/build process. ---++++ SPARQL and RDF * Added compiler extensions for SPARQL graph-level security * Added initial implementation of RDF graph-level security metadata functions * Added initial infrastructure for new SPARQL result serialization * Added support for SSG_VALMODE_SHORT_OR_LONG * Added support for define sparql-get:proxy for RDF mappers * Enhanced N3 syntax support * Added support for XML literals in RDF/XML, SPARQL XML resultset and JSON outputs * Enhanced speed of TTL output * Fixed SPARQL/SPARUL security * [[http://www.w3.org/TR/void/][VoID]] graph generation for describing Quad Store ---++++ Sponger Cartridges Related * Added U.S. Congress Web service * Added Del.icio.us Tag Lookup Meta Cartridge * Added GoodRelations and Barters for eCommerce Services * Added NYT Articles Lookup Meta Cartridge * Added OpenStreetMap Cartridge * Added O'Reilly Books Catalog Lookup Meta Cartridge * Added PowerPoint (PPTX) Cartridge * Added SCOT based Tag Cloud * Added Technocrati Lookup Meta Cartridge * Misc. fixes * Fixed GPF in rare case when using NOT FROM / NOT FROM NAMED * Fixed handling of class instance array * Fixed i18N issues with freetext search in RDF * Fixed i18N serialization of RDF/XML box * Fixed incorrect result when Accept is set to "text/rdf-n3" * Fixed passing retvals of variables from OPTION(), like ?SCORE ?x, from deeply nested subselects ---++++ ODS Applications * Added WebID Protocol and WebID Protocol+OpenID * Added Bibliographical ontology usage in ODS Graph * Added Calendar API and upstream commands * Added "One-Click" X.509 Certificate, Private Key generation plus Browser import, and write to FOAF profile * Added Messaging Services * Added Relationships Ontology terms to ODS-AddressBook for qualifying relationships in Social Network * Added Biographical Ontology terms added to Profile Page UI * Added Support for MS Live Contacts API * Additional Ubiquity commands for relationship qualification in Social Network data spaces * Added Support for Portable contacts API * Fixed OpenID registration/auth in WebID Protocol+OpenID implementation ---+++ 2009-02-15: Announcing Virtuoso Open-Source Edition v5.0.10 This version includes: ---++++ Database engine * Initial support for JDBC 4.x in the JDBC Driver * Self-signed certificates and optional client-verification in HTTPS * HTTP ACLs for rate-limiting * A new `TOP(N, -1)' function for skipping N rows prior to resultset construction * New INI-file options: LiteMode and DisableTcpSocket for thinner embeddable RDF or SQL RDBMS operation; RdfFreeTextRulesSize and IndexTreeMaps for better memory control * Fixes for a deadlock handler bug and various 64-bit issues and compiler warnings * Performance optimizations in the core database engine ---++++ RDF Data Management & Data Access * New Meta Cartridges for UMBEL, Calais, Zemanta, Hoovers and the New York Times * New Sponger cartridges for AB Meta, Last.FM, Twitter, Meetup.com, LibraryThing, SalesForce.com, RadioPop, Rhapsody * Added support for WebID Protocol * New (X)HTML browser page for RDF Linked Data * SPASQL ExtendedString and RdfBox types in .NET * new CURIE-generation functions * Amazon S3 DET and WebDAV mounting * improved Turtle output presentation * Various SPARQL and SPARUL updates and extensions and fixes * Automated generating OWL from DB schema * Fixed memory leaks ---++++ ODS Application suite * New OAuth support * Support for WebID Protocol self-signed certificates written to in FOAF-based member profiles * Support for Amazon S3 folders in ODS-Briefcase * New contact fields in ODS-AddressBook * Ubiquity commands for interacting with all Data Spaces programmatically ---++ Previous Years * [[VOSNews2008][2008]] * [[VOSNews2007][2007]] * [[VOSNews2006][2006]] %VOSCOPY% CategoryVirtuoso CategoryOpenSource CategoryWebSite